Second Life is a virtual world created by its \"owners\" - and some of the owners just looooove rockets. Here's a view of the International Space Museum's rocket garden, as seen from the top of a virtual space shuttle's external fuel tank. Click on the labels at left for more snapshots.
- Alan Boyle (a.k.a. Boole Allen)";
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Pirate launch pad
Space activist Rocket Sellers and spacecraft designer Jimbo Perhaps launch a series of historic rockets from a pirate launch pad by typing in a particular sequence of commands.
You can also see a lava tube complex under construction, as well as a placard advertising Yuri's Night, a celebration of human spaceflight. Second Lifers have planned 24 hours' worth of activities on Yuri's Night, April 12.";
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Future rockets launched
Rocket Sellers fires off model rockets inspired by the Masten Space Systems XA and Blue Origin's Goddard \"gumdrop\" rocket. The display also includes the Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket, Orion Propulsion's Responder, the Rocketplane Kistler K-1 and Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis inflatable orbital module. The real Genesis 1 is in orbit, but the company's founder, Robert Bigelow, couldn't persuade the Russians to put his wife's name in lights on the spacecraft. This Second Life version, created by Jimbo Perhaps, makes amends by flashing the name \"DIANE.\"";
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NASA Amphitheater
You can hover over an amphitheater built on Space CoLab Island for large groups. When you click on a \"play\" button in Second Life, video programming from NASA TV appears on the screen.
Second Life's Space CoLab is adjacent to the International Space Museum. There's a headquarters building as well as a couple of \"sandboxes\" for groups working with simulated space habitats.
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Mountaintop meeting
NASA representatives and Space CoLab volunteers meet regularly to discuss what's up in the virtual world, and how to connect it to real-world developments. Here's a gathering at CoLab's mountaintop meeting place.
Second Life is different from First Life in that you can fly or teleport from one location to another. In this picture, spacecraft guru Jimbo Perhaps (the guy with the Elvis hairdo and the samurai sword) is flying in to join the meeting.";
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Skypods at CoLab
Volunteers have built three levels of floating office space above CoLab's mountain, with four meeting rooms on each cross-shaped level. The \"skypods\" were built and donated to CoLab by Elliott Eldrich. Perhaps the coolest thing is the view: Far below, you can see the CoLab headquarters building as well as the rocket-strewn grounds of the International Space Museum. This snapshot was provided by Paradox Olbers, one of the public volunteers in CoLab's outfitters group, the Space Riggers.
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Low Earth orbit
You can teleport (or ride a rocket) up from the International Space Museum to a platform in \"low Earth orbit,\" where a replica of the space shuttle is about to dock with the international space station. The display includes a Hubble Space Telescope for good measure.
The view far below the display is a photo representation of Earth as seen by the crew of Apollo 17.";
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Mars in a box
From low Earth orbit, you can teleport to Second Life's Mars display. One of the attractions is a boxy chamber that has been decorated with projections of a Mars landscape as seen by NASA's Spirit rover.
This view from on high shows the Mars Pathfinder lander and rover at left, the Mars Viking lander at right, and a proposed Mars airplane flying above the surface.";
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Venus on display
This platform, high above the haze that obscures the surface of Second Life's terrain, houses an orange 3-D globe of Venus that was created using data from the Magellan probe.
A replica of the Magellan orbiter as well as the Soviet Venera probe is included as part of the display, created by the International Spaceflight Museum."; // END editorial data